Nate Chisholm

Nate Chisholm

A Thinking Person’s Guide to Set-Stocking

Set-Stocking, Stocking, Experiment

08 Facebook  Twitter Last week I described how Bud and Eunice Williams got pretty nervous when I started talking about my passion for grass management. When I asked him why, Bud simply said, “Sometimes people will bring livestock back to…

Eden? No, thanks. I can do better.

Blog Eden? No thanks.

08 Facebook  Twitter We feel peaceful when we are in a landscape that has short green grass, some scattered trees with their branches pruned up high, and some closely hedged shrubs. We like this sort of landscape because these queues…

Land Use and Stress

08 Facebook  Twitter A recent paper, “The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?” (Mayshar et al., 2022), highlights how seemingly small changes in subsistence can have vast and far-reaching implications for human well-being. In this paper, the researchers…

The Ecology Of Livestock Stress​

06 Facebook  Twitter In my last post I connected the dots between the stress I create in myself and the stress I create for my livestock. This week I will look at how this same pattern holds for the researchers…

Ditches and Green New Deals, Part II

08 Facebook  Twitter No one knows the best, most efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations while still making the average person better off. How do I know? Because no one has ever done it. This includes us eco-grazers, by…